Romanticism and the Forms of Ruin: Wordsworth, Coleridge, the Modalities of Fragmentation

Thomas McFarland

Published by Princeton University Press 1981

Romanticism and the Forms of Ruin

Wordsworth, Coleridge, the Modalities of Fragmentation

Thomas McFarland

Volume 739 in the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400855964

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Despite their hopeful aspirations to wholeness in life and spirit, Thomas McFarland contends, the Romantics were ruins amidst ruins," fragments of human existence in a disintegrating world. Focusing on Wordsworth and Coleridge, Professor McFarland shows how this was true not only for each of these Romantics in particular but also for Romanticism in general.

Originally published in 1981.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Key to Brief Titles Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xv
Introduction. Fragmented Modalities and the Criteria of Romanticism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter One. The Symbiosis of Coleridge and Wordsworth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
Chapter Two. Coleridge's Anxiety Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
Chapter Three. The Significant Group: Wordsworth's Fears in Solitude Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Chapter Four. Problems of Style in the Poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
First Landing Place. Poetry and the Poem: The Structure of Poetic Content Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Chapter Five. A Complex Dialogue: Coleridge's Doctrine of Polarity and Its European Contexts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Chapter Six. The Psychic Economy and Cultural Meaning of Coleridge's Magnum Opus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	342
Second Landing Place. The Place Beyond the Heavens: True Being, Transcendence, and the Symbolic Indication of Wholeness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	382
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	419

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